As if inventing the Internet wasn't enough, Bill Gates wants to invent the next generation of condoms. Who knew the Microsoft super nerd was so sexy?

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering $100,000 of funding for a new and improved female or male condom that feels super good and makes everyone want to have the safest, sexiest sex ever. The contest is part of Round 11 for the Grand Challenges Exploration initiative, a five-year-old program run by the Gates Foundation that encourages innovation in global health research. The reason for this particular challenge is prefaced with the obvious: Dudes don't like the way condoms feel.

The official call for entries states, "The primary drawback from the male perspective is that condoms decrease pleasure as compared to no condom, creating a trade-off that many men find unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about use must be made just prior to intercourse." True and truer. Even if you stroke his ego with an XL Magnum, chances are he'd rather go bare.

The challenge, as Gawker reported, goes on to explain that while condoms have been used for about 400 years (all lambskin, we presume?), there has been little technological advancement for the last 50 years. And the main change has been in quality control and the primary use of latex for the condom's material.

Here's what the Gates Foundation suggests this newfangled condom provide: Enhanced pleasure, ease of use and more appealing packaging. We'd recommend adding a husky voice recording in that package (and maybe some disposable handcuffs?) for good measure.

As for proposals, they should be well thought out with "a testable hypothesis, (ii) include an associated plan for how the idea would be tested or validated, and (iii) yield interpretable and unambiguous data in Phase I, in order to be considered for Phase II funding." Testable hypothesis? Stop talking dirty to us, Bill! Applications are due May 7, so start getting busy, brainiac.

Oh, and in case you thought a
bacon-flavored condom was your ticket to success, think again. Been there, done that.